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Would it be too difficult to add the "series title and/or year" info as part of the banner's alt-text, or does the forum software not allow this?

Good idea; I think it should be possible to do that.

Looks like the consensus is to have a small selection of approved gradients, so I guess that'll be the next step. If people want to start submitting gradient ideas here, that'd be fine. Here is the tester:

Just upload your gradient idea, paste the URL into the background box, and hit "Set". The height should be 100px, and if you do it right you shouldn't need the gradient itself to be more than 1px wide. Please make it a straight vertical gradient (not horizontal).

What's the size again? 760 x 100? Coz I see vertical lines.... when I upload a sample gradient.

Anyway pink and blue are so common already.. Sorry, first timer....

Use either png or gif format. jpegs tend to act a bit funny in gradients, especially in images with small dimensions. Even gif's 8bit color space isn't a problem since the maximum color count is 100 anyway.